Foreshadowing the impending release of a report expected to suggest that the enhanced techniques were unnecessary and also to accuse some CIA officers of misleading Congress about the effectiveness of the program, President Barack Obama said on Friday that the CIA tortured some folks. He had banned the practices soon after taking office in 2009. Officials said the Senate Intelligence Committee was unlikely to release the report to the public without some additional review. A preliminary review of the report indicates there have been significant redactions. We need additional time to understand the basis for these redactions and determine their justification. Therefore the report will be held until further notice and released when that process is completed, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committees chair, said. The voluminous report does not state that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques - which included measures such as waterboarding, or simulated drowning, on captured al Qaeda militants - produced no information of value whatsoever, the officials said.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:33:49 +0000
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